Mars
How you go after what you want, and how you fight when it's refused.
- Speed
- six or seven weeks in a sign
- Retrograde
- about every two years, for two to three months
- Keywords
- drive · anger · courage
Mars is the will made visible — the way effort actually gets applied, the shape of anger, the thing that gets you out of the chair. Where Venus wants, Mars goes and takes.
It rules Aries outright and Scorpio in the traditional scheme, which is the same force spent in two directions: the open charge and the held pressure. Mars retrograde is the awkward one to live through — roughly two months every two years when the usual approach stops working and force applied harder makes it worse.
Whether Mars is retrograde today, and when it next turns, is on the retrograde tracker. Where it stands right now is on the sky today.
Where it stood the day you were born — cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.